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Pyramid addition inquiry
Throughout this inquiry students will use addition to sum numbers up in two adjacent cells to make the number in the top cell. Students are encouraged to extend their skills through using the four operations of number. Examples are provided to interpret collaboratively.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Planning Student activities Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Addition and subtraction Integers Operating with number
- Audience
- Students Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7A01
- Numeracy progression
- Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P6)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- order of operations numerical order
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